spirit (away or off)

verb

Definition of spirit (away or off)next
as in to fasten (on)

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  1. mesh
  2. abduct
  3. kidnap
  4. enmesh
  5. entrap
  6. fist
Verb
  • So much your body is meshed in flex and yet yields tougher than softness suggests.
    Diane Mehta, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The rotation just doesn’t seem to all mesh at the same time.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Definition of mesh
Verb
  • The man’s daughter had been abducted decades before.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Plot: The Simpsons are abducted by Kang or Kodos, who either want to eat them or treat them like kings.
    Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of abduct
Verb
  • The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The woman who kidnapped her and renamed her Aaliyah, Carolyn Correa, isn’t featured in the three-episode documentary.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of kidnap
Verb
  • Gary became enmeshed in the book and publishing culture, much preferring it to the art world.
    Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But the Trump campaign has spent two days enmeshed in a controversy of its own making, after a comedian at his big rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday made a racist crack about Puerto Rico.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of enmesh
Verb
  • With her heavy black bangs and penchant for dressing like a paper doll from the 1960s, the comedian is loud, indignant, and ready to entrap both spirits and audience members.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2024
  • There should not be openings that may entrap a child's head, neck, or body (this poses a risk of asphyxiation).
    Samson McDougall, Parents, 5 Oct. 2024
Definition of entrap
Verb
  • Watch baseball, football, or any team sport: Players support each other and strengthen their bonds by interacting with each other in high fives, hands clasping or shaking, fists bumping, pats on the head or back—and even hugs.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, fists jackhammering from powerful shoulders, sometimes fracturing bones, tearing tissue and rattling brains.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Definition of fist
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